Global Trend of Suicide Per 100k Populationn over time

Before 1995, the suicide rate at the global level is increasing, but since then, it keeps decreasing. The peak of the suicide rate among those 30 years was 1995.

Global Trend of Suicide Per 100k Populationn by gender over time

We found that surprisingly, male has higher rate of suicide than female since 1985. Female suicide rate has a very stable trend throughout the history, while there were dramatic changes for male. As mentioned in the other graph, there is a peak in 1995 for the suiceide rate.

Global Trend of Suicide Per 100k Populationn by age over time

Suicide rates for the youngest age group nearly constant and low over time. As the graph shown, elder groups have had higher suicide rate since 1985, and surprisingly such trend has not changed once. For age groups 25-34, 35-54 and 55-74 had similar trends over those 30 years.

Suicide Rate by Country GDP

GDP has been viewed as a good measure about the development of a country. However, graph below shows that there are no obvious trend between GDP and suicide rate. Although GDPs across the world have been shifted toward larger direction, such trend persists.

Countries with most suicides across the years

We are also interested about the ranking of amount of suicides across the time. Below, we show the changing of the ranking across the time. Since there are too many, we will choose the top 20 countries with most total amount of suicide from 1985 to 2015. Those countries are:

country count
Russian Federation 1209742
United States 1034013
Japan 806902
France 329127
Ukraine 319950
Germany 291262
Republic of Korea 261730
Brazil 226613
Poland 139098
United Kingdom 136805
Italy 132060
Mexico 111139
Canada 107561
Thailand 106526
Kazakhstan 101546
Spain 100202
Argentina 82219
Hungary 72130
Romania 70824
Australia 70111

From graph graph below, we can see that United States, Russian Federation and Japan are the top 3 countries with highest suicides per year. US, Japan, and Germany (number 4 in the rank) have highest GDP rank as well. After researching, Russian Federation has high suicide rate might due to heavy alcoholic use, with an estimated half of all suicides correlated with alcohol abuse.